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Building a Guitar Speaker Power Reduction Box
My vast collection of rheostats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-66e-kxP4iM) will finally come in handy! Using a low-ohm one to make a power attenuator box, which is plugged in between a guitar amp and a cabinet, so that you can crank the amp up all the way to "The Spinal Tap" 11 (if it supports this!) and get that nice overdriven sound while not pumping all those decibels into your neighbors' ears. The design balances the power between the speaker and dummy load, letting more or less steam off.
0:00 Intro
1:15 The Parts
2:55 Schematic and Calculations Explained
13:30 Let's Build It
14:00 The Piergiacomi Wire Stripper
15:35 Mechanical Assembly (shoutout to @MrCarlsonsLab )
24:45 The Ground
30:10 Mistakes and Industrial Hairdryer
34:50 Hot Wires
46:35 The Resistors
49:10 The Knob
50:35 Labels and Lid
54:10 All Done!
55:17 Afterword
Support me on my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/KeritechElectronics or via PayPal https://paypal.me/keritech
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/KeriSzafir
Hackaday - https://hackaday.io/keritech
#ElectronicsCreators #Keritech #Electronics
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My vast collection of rheostats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-66e-kxP4iM) will finally come in handy! Using a low-ohm one to make a power attenuator box, which is plugged in between a guitar amp and a cabinet, so that you can crank the amp up all the way to "The Spinal Tap" 11 (if it supports this!) and get that nice overdriven sound while not pumping all those decibels into your neighbors' ears. The design balances the power between the speaker and dummy load, letting more or less steam off.
0:00 Intro
1:15 The Parts
2:55 Schematic and Calculations Explained
13:30 Let's Build It
14:00 The Piergiacomi Wire Stripper
15:35 Mechanical Assembly (shoutout to @MrCarlsonsLab )
24:45 The Ground
30:10 Mistakes and Industrial Hairdryer
34:50 Hot Wires
46:35 The Resistors
49:10 The Knob
50:35 Labels and Lid
54:10 All Done!
55:17 Afterword
Support me on my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/KeritechElectronics or via PayPal https://paypal.me/keritech
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/KeriSzafir
Hackaday - https://hackaday.io/keritech
#ElectronicsCreators #Keritech #Electronics